The Relation Between Parenting Efficacy and Sense of Community Among Adolescents: The Mediating Effects of Perceived Family Relationship and Self-Esteem
AUTHOR : 김유정, 박유경, 이금규
INFORMATION : page. 101~110 / 2023 Vol.30 No.4
ABSTRACT
Social crises, such as the global climate crisis, have emphasized the importance of individuals’ psychological mechanisms of responsibility for the community or shared merits and demerits. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the context around adolescents, their internal variables, and the sense of community in ado-lescence when social identity is established. A total of 1,672 pairs of adolescents aged 12 to 17 years (M = 14.95, 900 males, 772 females) and their parents (203 fathers, 1,469 mothers) from the National Survey on Children in Korea were analyzed using SPSS 26.0 and PROCESS macro to conduct sequential mediation effects analysis and bootstrapping tests. First, the direct impact of parenting efficacy on adolescents' sense of community was significant. Second, the sequential mediating effects of adolescents' perceived family relationships and adolescents' self-esteem on the relation between parenting efficacy and adolescents’ sense of community were significant. In other words, when parents feel efficacy, adolescents perceive family relationships positively, and self-esteem leads to a higher level of sense of community. This suggests the importance of interventions that promote parenting efficacy, support adolescents’ primary environments, which are their families, and boost their self-esteem to foster a sense of community.